Improvement in compound adjustable garden-hoe



M. H, FLETCHER.

Garden Hoe.

No. 83.771, Patented Nov. 3, 1868.

MORDECAI H. FLETCHER, OF RICHMOND, INDiANA.

Letters Patent No. 83,771, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUND ADJUSTABLE GARDEN-HOE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Fatent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may cancer-n:

Be it known that l, MORDEGAI H,-1 nnronnn, of the city of Richmond, and State of ludiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garden- Implements; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a hand-implement for gardening-purposes, constructed with two shovels that may be drawn between rows, in the manner of a double-shovel plow, or may be used as an ordinary hoe.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my said invention, I-will proceed to describe its constrnction.

The bifurcation b c is provided with a shank, on which handle a is secured. The arms is a single rod, forming an angle by which the end of said arm termimates in a position suitable to hold shovel c. I

Theend of shank d, to which shovel b is attached,

is received on the arm I) by means of an eye in said shank, thus allowing shovel b to be adjusted forward or backward to any desired position with rel tion to shovel c. Shovel b may also be. adjusted laterally, to increase or diminish the distance between the two shovels; or the positions of the shovels may be reversed, so that one only may be used for furrowing or other purposes for which a single shovel only is needed. "A thumb-screw, e, serves to tighten the shank cl on arm I), and thus hold shovel b in any'desired position. Having thds fully described my said invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr Th'e'combination of the arms b and 0, shovels b and c, and shank (I, when the latter is made adjustable on arm I), and the whole is constructed in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

MORDEOAI H. FLETGHER.

Witnesses:

J osnrn RIDGE, A. RoBEn'rs. 

